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Pa. police: Monroeton man steals car, crashes, confesses

A Monroeton man was arrested after stealing a car from the Dandy Mini Mart in Wysox and subsequently crashing the vehicle, Pennsylvania State Police at Towanda said.

Police said Donald Vanderpool, 54, of Towanda, had parked his 2002 Dodge Neon outside the store in front of the fuel pumps at 11 p.m. Monday. While he was inside the store paying for his fuel purchase, Joshua Todd Parsons, 18, drove off with the car, heading east on State Route 6, police said.

While Trooper William McDermott was interviewing Vanderpool, he was informed the driver of the vehicle had crashed the car on North Keystone Road in the Borough of South Waverly, and the Sayre Police Department had detained him, police said.

McDermott verified that Parsons was the same person seen on video footage at the convenience store in Wysox, and after being taken into custody, Parsons confessed to stealing the vehicle, police said.

Parsons was arraigned and sent to the Bradford County Correctional Facility in lieu of $25,000 bail, police said.